Issues when cloning from a sata ssd to a nvme ssd
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Hi, I just got a brand new pc but I had windows 11 already installed onto a sata ssd however I got a mini pc where it only takes two nvme ssds. So I had a thumb drive with rescuezilla and did the entire cloning process. I cloned from a 1tb sata ssd using an external sata cable to a 2tb nvme ssd. And when it finished my pc booted up in 1024 x 768 resultion with me unable to change it. With also my 2tb nvme ssd with only 476gb. I don't know what I did wrong or how I did things wrong. And I really hope there's a fix to this.
OK so it sounds like your cloning succeeded without Rescuezilla reporting any errors, and now your mini PC is booting from the NVMe SSD?
The first thing is I wonder if your 2TB NVMe SSD for some reason may not have had its partitioning or filesystem expanded by Rescuezilla. Maybe this could happen if you use encryption on your source drive?
The solution for this situation is to boot back into Rescuezilla (eg, perhaps even on your mini PC directly, though worst case using your regular PC again) and use the GParted Partition Editor to confirm the partition layout, and if necessary use its interface to expand the partitions. Here is an old but high-quality video tutorial on using GParted to shrink partitions (but your goal here is to confirm if the partitions are fully expanded).
Be careful never to attempt to boot into Windows with both the original and cloned hard drives in the same PC in case they interfere
As for the 1024 x 768 resolution, it sounds like that's the Windows resolution on your mini PC rather than Rescuezilla, correct? If it's Windows then it's because your brand new PC didn't have the graphics drivers for your mini PC, so Windows is using its generic driver.
It's possible (even likely) that Windows Update will eventually automatically download the official graphics card driver and switch to back to the maximum supported resolution that your mini PC supports. You may be able to select a Windows Update option to automatically search for drivers on the internet.
But failing that, you may need to determine and download your graphics chip driver, which would be from AMD or NVidia since Intel video drivers would typically download.
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